Re: Slow keyboard Input from some GEM programs...

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nuts.edu>]

On Sun, 31 May 1998, Brian Roland wrote:

> Some GEM programs, under Mint (KEMD), many I really like to use, take
> several seconds per character when I'm typing input on the keyboard on my
> system (Stock Falcon 030, VGA, 14meg, NVDI 3.2, HD-Driver 5.1, AES 1.4).

Do you mean AES 4.1? Or are you using the built-in AES? If you don't
use a replacement AES of some kind (MultiTOS, N.AES...) you'll have to
run NOHOG.ACC to get decent performance.

> For example, Edith text editor...

Edith is extremely slow under any OS...

> Needless to say, it makes trying to use these programs frustrating to the
> point of uselessness...when it takes forever just to type in a single line
> of text.

Sounds like a problem I had with some programs (including qed and the
Pure C editor) and had SpeedUp installed. I had the same problems with
MausWin as well.

> Is there something I can tweak that might speed matters up a bit?
> I've tried dropping the number of colors in my desktop, dropping the
> number of accessaries or back-ground tasks that are running, and other
> common sense approaches to no avail.

You could try tweaking the TIMESLICE-variable, I have it set to 2 on
my Falcon/Afterburner with KGMD/N.AES.

You should also run 'top' and check which process that's hogging your
system. The running-order in AUTO should also be checked, generally
MiNT should be the last program in the auto-folder. The only program I
have running after MiNT is the 68882-emulator for the 040.


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